While exploring the grounds of Wildsumaco Lodge on the east slope of the Andes in Ecuador I came across a rather large bug lying...

Pico Bonito, Honduras, March 2009 On our way to the lovely Lodge at Pico Bonito on the edge of Pico Bonito National Park in...

No, not really. Sites rehabilitated after mining are not attracting as many birds as before the areas were mined.

Then you better have $75,000! That is the minimum amount the complete set of The Birds of Europe, produced between 1832 and 1837, is...

You’d think it would be a no-brainer but sadly hunters are resistant to a lead-bullet ban. Over a hundred organizations have again petitioned the...

I was recently reading a rather vitriolic comment thread on a blog post related to carbon dioxide and global warming and came across references...

Duncan let me know about this fascinating article from The New York Times Magazine about the changing ecology – and population – of the...

Anhinga, otherwise known as Snakebird, Water Turkey, or American Darter* – and more formally as Anhinga anhinga – is a bird I have long...